Çennay, Hindistan: yıl boyunca neler var

Çok kalabalık — Pongal, Margazhi music season

• Tatil

  Pongal

  13–17 Oca · geneldeHasatKapanışlar

  Four days of harvest holiday. The city empties towards the villages, offices and many restaurants shut, and every bus and train out is booked a fortnight ahead. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Kapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival

  1–3 ŞubDini bayramKalabalık

  Over three evenings in the Tamil month of Thai, around Thaipusam, the Mylapore temple's deities are rowed round the temple tank on a lit float; crowds line the tank steps and the streets around fill with stalls. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Margazhi music season (15 Ara – 15 Oca)

Çok kalabalık — Kapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival, Maha Shivaratri

• Festival

  Maha Shivaratri

  10 Şub – 12 Mar · geneldeDini bayramKalabalık

  Shiva temples across the city, Kapaleeshwarar in Mylapore above all, stay open through the night with long queues for darshan and devotional music until dawn; traffic around the big temples slows to a crawl. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Kapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival (1–3 Şub)

Çok kalabalık — Maha Shivaratri, Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore

• Festival

  Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore

  10 Mar – 15 Nis · geneldeDini bayramKalabalık

  Ten days of processions round the Kapaleeshwarar temple tank in the Tamil month of Panguni, peaking with the chariot pull and the parade of the 63 Nayanmar saints. Mylapore's streets close to traffic for the big days. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Maha Shivaratri (10 Şub – 12 Mar (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore, Hindistan genelinde Summer vacation (Kerala / far south)

• Kural

  East-coast fishing ban

  15 Nis – 14 HazDoğadan toplama sezonu

  Mechanised boats stay in harbour at Kasimedu and along the Tamil Nadu coast for 61 days of the breeding season, so the catch shrinks and fish prices rise until the fleet goes out again in mid-June. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore (10 Mar – 15 Nis (genelde))

Kalabalık — Hindistan genelinde Summer vacation (north & east)

• Risk

  Agni Natchathiram heat

  4–28 May · geneldeAşırı sıcak

  The fortnight the Tamil almanac names as the hottest of the year, and the city agrees with it. Schools are out, work starts early, and nobody crosses the Marina sand between eleven and four. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: East-coast fishing ban (15 Nis – 14 Haz)

Kalabalık — Hindistan genelinde Summer vacation (north & east), burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili

Haziran ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: East-coast fishing ban (15 Nis – 14 Haz)

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 5 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

• Festival

  Aadi month at Amman temples

  17 Tem – 16 Ağu · geneldeDini bayram

  Through the Tamil month of Aadi, goddess temples across the city hold Friday festivals and neighbourhoods cook and hand out koozh, a millet porridge offering. Aadi is thought unlucky for weddings, so the wedding halls go quiet. Kaynak ↗

Kalabalık — Vinayaka Chaturthi, burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili

• Festival

  Madras Week

  18–25 Ağu · geneldeBüyük festival

  The city marks its founding on 22 August with a week of heritage walks, talks, quizzes and food trails. A good excuse to see old George Town and Mylapore with people who know every lane. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Vinayaka Chaturthi

  20 Ağu – 25 Eyl · geneldeDini bayramKalabalık

  Ganesha idols go up in pandals across the city, and in the following days they are carried in processions down to the sea for immersion. Expect road diversions along the coast on the immersion days. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Aadi month at Amman temples (17 Tem – 16 Ağu (genelde))

Kalabalık — Vinayaka Chaturthi, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

Eylül ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Vinayaka Chaturthi (20 Ağu – 25 Eyl (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Deepavali, Hindistan genelinde Autumn break (Dussehra / Diwali)

• Risk

  Bay of Bengal cyclone season

  1 Eki – 15 Ara · geneldeKapanışlar

  A system or two a season comes close enough to shut the airport for a day and put the fishing fleet ashore. Warnings run several days out, so the cost is usually a lost day rather than a lost trip. Kaynak ↗

• Sezon

  Northeast monsoon

  15 Eki – 31 Ara · geneldeRisk

  Most of Chennai's rain falls in these ten weeks, in long grey spells rather than afternoon storms, and the low parts of the city go under when a depression parks offshore.

• Tatil

  Deepavali

  15 Eki – 15 Kas · geneldeDiwaliKalabalık

  Tamil Nadu celebrates at dawn on the day before the new moon, with an oil bath, new clothes and firecrackers from before sunrise. T Nagar's shopping streets are packed for the fortnight before, and trains and buses out of the city sell out. Kaynak ↗

Kalabalık — Deepavali

Kasım ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Bay of Bengal cyclone season (1 Eki – 15 Ara (genelde)), Northeast monsoon (15 Eki – 31 Ara (genelde)), Deepavali (15 Eki – 15 Kas (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Margazhi music season, Hindistan genelinde Winter break

• Festival

  Margazhi music season

  15 Ara – 15 OcaMüzik festivaliKalabalık

  A thousand-odd Carnatic concerts across the sabhas of Mylapore and T. Nagar, most of them free or a few hundred rupees, and canteens people turn up for on their own account. Stay near Luz Corner. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Bay of Bengal cyclone season (1 Eki – 15 Ara (genelde)), Northeast monsoon (15 Eki – 31 Ara (genelde))